'''Scalpel''' is an [[open source]] program for [[recovering deleted data]] originally based on [[foremost]], although significantly more efficient. Written by [[Golden Richard]] and presented at the [[DFRWS]] in 2005, it allows an examiner to specify a number of headers and footers to recover filetypes from a piece of media.

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'''Scalpel''' is an [[open source]] program for [[recovering deleted data]] originally based on [[foremost]], although significantly more efficient. Written by [[Golden G. Richard III]] and presented at the [[Digital Forensic Research Workshop|DFRWS]] conference in 2005, it allows an examiner to specify a number of headers and footers to recover filetypes from a piece of media.